Critical Theory and the Political.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marinopoulou, Anastasia.

Series:

Critical Theory and Contemporary Society Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

Democracy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.

Summary:

The book explores whether critical theory constitutes a political argument for modernity and an argument for politics within modernity. Each contributor presents a focal point of research and demonstrates the link between critical theory and a variety of political and social phenomena, which characterise modern societies and political systems.

Contents:

Front matter

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Introduction

Part I Essential political notions of critical theory

Critique, negation, politics

Between ideals and realism: On the 'political' in Max Horkheimer's early thought

Part II Democracy

Critical theory and democracy: From Kant to Habermas and then back to the Dialectic of Enlightenment

On the ambivalent effects of politicising justice

Part III Political power, civil society and globalisation

From the critique of power to critical institutionalism

Guardians of legitimacy: Habermas on civil disobedience as radical democratic practice

Can housing be unfair? Towards a critical theory of injustice

Part IV Epistemology and the political

Critical theory and the realist critique of normative political theory

Power, reasons and ideology: On the epistemology and metaphysics of noumenal power

Part V Praxis, public sphere and political communication

The limits of critical democratic theory regarding structural transformations in twenty-first-century Left politics

New challenges for critical theory: Deliberative public sphere and political communication in the new hybrid media system

Postscript

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5261-7261-5

1-5261-7263-1

9781526172617

OCLC:

1583410629